Foot-ball has changed. It cannot help changing from year to year from the very fact that competition is constantly urging it forward. One party in trying to surpass the other will find some new method, some weak point in its adversaries' tactics, which, properly made use of, will gain for it the desired end. It is precisely the same in any other matter where competition takes a part, whether we confine ourselves to athletics or not. And our game of foot-ball is not an exception. The time is so short for actual training; the matches so few in the year, that we are now coming to understand where the real power of the game lies. It is not the team which has the heaviest men, makes the most brilliant plays, and has the fastest runners, that is to win in the coming contest, but that eleven which employs every player to make each run, and where the ball is being continually passed from man to man. The science of the game is far more important now than mere strength. Let us remember this.

The game as it advances is gradually tending to sink the individual into the team, - the part into the whole. We do not look for, nor desire, a team of brilliant players. Let us have men who can all take part in one play, and not one team made up of eleven separate players.

Capt. Brooks has commenced with the right principle, - practicing one single play a number of times, and compelling a player if he makes a poor catch, or a bad pass, to try the same again and again. Thus, should he ever find himself in that position during a match, he will know just what to do and how to do it.

With Mr. Lathrop's good training, if we might add Mr. Mason's coaching to assist the captain, we could safely hope to have the finest team seen at Harvard for many years.